How to Cut Hard Squash - CHOW Tip

CHOW Food Editor Aida Mollenkamp uses a serrated knife to saw through the tough skin. Alternatively, she wraps a meat tenderizer in a towel and "hammers" a cleaver into the side.

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It's hard to cut a squash.  This is the way we do it in the CHOW Test Kitchen so it's safe and easy.  You take a cutting board and stabilize it with a rubber mat or a wet towel.  Put another towel on top so that the squash won't roll around and then use a serrated knife and start sawing gently lengthwise through the tough outer skin.  Once you get through the skin, it's pretty easy at that point, you can apply a lot more pressure until it's broken open.  But if for some reason you can't get all the way through, you can take a clever and just gently tap.  Once it's about three quarters of the way through you can just pry it open with your hands.

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